Topic: overdose

The Associated Press WINSTON, Ore. — Seven students from Douglas High School in Winston were treated at a hospital Thursday for overdosing on drugs one of them brought from home. Police tell KVAL-TV in Eugene that seven boys took a mixture of cough syrup, sleeping pills and seizure medication. Fire department emergency crews responded to the school. The students…

The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A coroner says a drug overdose caused the death of a University of Louisville cheerleader in July. Jefferson County Coroner Barbara Weakley-Jones told The Courier-Journal that 22-year-old Danielle Cogswell died of an overdose of heroin, amphetamines and Xanax. University sports information director Kenny Klein said cheerleaders will now be required to undergo the…

The death of a 3-year-old boy in Renton in May was due to an overdose of methadone, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Kaiden Acord was found unresponsive on May 1 in a Renton home belonging to his mother’s boyfriend, Renton police spokeswoman Terri Vickers said. The owner of the methadone willingly came forward to police, Vickers…

The Associated Press PORTLAND — A state report shows methamphetamine-related deaths in Oregon up by almost a third. The 2013 statistics released Thursday show 222 drug-related deaths overall — one fewer than the year before. It said 123 of the deaths were meth-related, the highest number since 2000. State Medical Examiner Dr. Karen Gunson says the majority of…

By DOUG ESSER Associated Press UPDATE: 12 p.m. | One man died and dozens of people were treated after overdosing on a drug called Molly at a weekend music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington, authorities said. More than 25,000 people attended the sold-out, two-day Paradiso Festival, which features dozens of electronic music performances. An autopsy was scheduled…

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